Derivation of the botanical name:
Veronica, named for the woman who took her veil, or a linen cloth, and wiped the sweat from the face of Jesus as he was bearing his cross to Calvary, and so named because the markings on some species supposedly resemble those on her sacred handkerchief.
polita, polio, to smoothen, polish; polished.
didyma, Greek, didymos, διδυμοϛ, double; two fruited.
Pocilla, small-cup, diminutive of poculum, a drinking-cup used in ancient Rome.

The standard author abbreviation Fr. is used to indicate Elias Magnus Fries (1794 – 1878), a Swedish mycologist and botanist; founder of modern fungal taxonomy.